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A Lost Land of Neverland · Golden-hour backlot

Hollywood North Studios

Everything here is a set, and every set is real by lunchtime.

A painterly souvenir-map illustration of a golden-age film studio backlot street at late afternoon, art-deco soundstages in one-point perspective leading to a tall riveted water tower at the vanishing point, with klieg lights, a camera crane, and vintage cars.

A working backlot in the last warm hour of the afternoon. Art-deco soundstages line a wide dusty street, a camera crane rolls past on its rails, painted mountain flats lean against the wall, and at the end of the road the great riveted water tower stands over the whole lot. Somewhere a bell rings and everybody goes quiet — they're rolling.